2 Samuel 1:12

1:12 They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord’s people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 3:32

3:32 So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly ¹  over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.

2 Samuel 3:34

3:34 Your hands ²  were not bound,

and your feet were not put into irons.

You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people ³  wept over him again.

2 Samuel 12:22

12:22 He replied, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ⁴  ‘Perhaps ⁵  the Lord will show pity and the child will live.

2 Samuel 13:36

13:36 Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived, wailing and weeping. ⁶  The king and all his servants wept loudly ⁷  as well.

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¹ tn Heb “lifted up his voice and wept.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

² tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”

³ tc 4QSam^a lacks the words “all the people.”

⁴ tn Heb “said.”

⁵ tn Heb “Who knows?”

⁶ tn Heb “and they lifted their voice and wept.”

⁷ tn Heb “with a great weeping.”